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Nice, I'm currently trying to go in a similar direction. I'm mainly struggeling with mix and arrangement, and you have some nice ideas in there. I like your choice of instruments, love that sweeping pad in the middle section. It's a bit long for a breakdown.. the switch to wubstep could work right after the DnB section, so maybe use the ambient-ish part as intro and make a return for the DnB feel for the finale? Can't say anything about the mix right now, the speakers I have at work cut off anything below 220Hz

Just wanted to announce that this thread is now the first google hit for 'tracker samples' below Wikipedia.

Good job, everyone!

I'll update the list with the new links as soon as I have a spare minute

Where is Saitone located? If google translated his last tweet (17hrs ago) right, he seems to have no power or water.

Hmm, my google-fu is weak

I found a small recommendation with a link to the label page in a german e-zine from 2003
The last.fm search can't find them, but their page is there: http://www.last.fm/music/Sputnik%20Sweethearts
Seems there are a few more songs out. Unfortunately, if you hover on the mp3 links on the archive.org snapshots, the files have rather generic names, so a file search doesn't help much. Torrent and file-crawlers come up empty, too.

Also, sell your soul to the devil

Could be several things. For one, replay volume doesn't always equal render volume. Check your DAW for render settings. Next, how does the waveform look in an editor? You could have spikes (usually high frequencies at the attack of a wave), which get reported as 'in the red' while most of your track is considerably quieter. Then there's waveform stacking (don't know the correct term for this), where waves pile up in such a way that they lift the whole y-axis action away from zero, which decreases the dynamic range.

The way I do it, I usually go source->{effect chain->limiter->mixer (3-band eq)->}limter->compression->10 band peak eq. The stuff in {} is only for multitrack recording. Limiting takes care of spikes, compression boosts the quiet stuff, 10 band eq to accentuate. Settings on limiter and compressor will determine how 'loud' your track is.

During master phase I often have a waveform/histogram plotter running, so I can see how to fix things.

Disclamer: I also often struggle with mixing/mastering, so I don't claim absolute knowledge on this.

Haha irrlicht, I was actually thinking about adding rhodes and overtone singing to my list! I just thought if I get to specific, I'd never be able to finish that list.

Jellica: Gah! I think everyone has an alarm clock with that sound (I need a cacophony of three alarm clocks and one mobile to awake from my torpor, and one of them sounds like that)